The 40th Annual Gender Studies Symposium will focus on questions of absence and lack, exploring the theoretical, political, and interpersonal dimensions of these questions in terms of gender and sexuality. We invite participants to consider who or what is overlooked, hidden, excluded, silenced, or invisible, as well as what it might mean to uncover, include, illuminate, amplify, or recuperate what has been absent or lacking.

Keynote presentation by Jennifer C. Nash, Jean Fox O’Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University, and author of Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality and The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography

The 40th Annual Gender Studies Symposium will focus on questions of absence and lack, exploring the theoretical, political, and interpersonal dimensions of these questions in terms of gender and sexuality. We invite participants to consider who or what is overlooked, hidden, excluded, silenced, or invisible, as well as what it might mean to uncover, include, illuminate, amplify, or recuperate what has been absent or lacking.

The 40th Annual Gender Studies Symposium will focus on questions of absence and lack, exploring the theoretical, political, and interpersonal dimensions of these questions in terms of gender and sexuality. We invite participants to consider who or what is overlooked, hidden, excluded, silenced, or invisible, as well as what it might mean to uncover, include, illuminate, amplify, or recuperate what has been absent or lacking.

Race Monologues

Each year a different group of L&C students writes an original series of personal narratives to share their feelings, experiences, and understandings of race, ethnicity, and identity.

Coordinated by L&C students Yashshree Raj Bisht ’21, Liza Clairagneau ’21, and Sheyla Dorantes ’21.

Registration is required by 6 pm on Friday, November 13. You must register with a Lewis & Clark email address.

Friday, November 13

4–5:30 p.m.
Performance: The People vs. _____
Conceived and written by Josie Seid

“First rule of change is controversy. You can’t get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.” — Saul Alinsky

We have returned to the place in our world where the people are pushing for change. A movement has reawakened and chosen its form as movements tend to do. Are these movements— in the forms they take—creating the change we seek? If movements are so effective, why do we seem to always find ourselves back at this place? We invite viewers to act as the jury as we take a closer look at the evolution of the movement and hear arguments for and against, in this case of: The People vs. _____.

Co-sponsored by Students for Cultural Inclusion in the Theater (SCIT)

Friday, November 13

2–3:30 p.m.
Roundtable discussion: Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid in the Covid-19 Crisis
In early April 2020 a group of activists, writers, and scholars convened to conduct interviews about the unprecedented mutual aid efforts emerging simultaneously around the world as communities of all kinds were forced to rapidly confront the challenges posed by the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. This transnational collaboration resulted in the formation of Colectiva Sembrar and the publication of a book in late June, Pandemic Solidarity, that includes over 100 interviews with individuals and collectives in over 17 countries and one autonomous territory, Rojava. This panel will bring together members of Colectiva Sembrar as well as some of the people interviewed in the book for a roundtable about solidarity, mutual aid, and social justice in the age of Covid-19.

Moderator: Magalí Rabasa, L&C assistant professor of Hispanic studies
Conversation featuring Hari Alluri, Timo Bartholl, Lais Gomes Duarte, Seyma Ozdemir, Magalí Rabasa, and Marina Sitrin

Friday, November 13

No registration required. More information and Zoom links can be found during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

Friday, November 13
10:30–11:45 a.m.
Race Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Student Research Presentations

7 p.m.

Keynote Event for Ray Warren Symposium

The stutter has run away from any government—

JJJJJerome Ellis, Afro-Cuban composer, performer, and writer

Friday, November 13

No registration required. More information and Zoom links can be found during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

Friday, November 13
10:30–11:45 a.m.
Race Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Student Research Presentations

Moderator: Valerie White, L&C ombuds
Channon Miller, assistant professor of history, University of San Diego (bio)
Alaí Reyes-Santos, associate professor of Indigenous, race, and ethnic studies, University of Oregon (bio)
Additional presenters to be confirmed.

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

7 p.m.

Keynote Event for Ray Warren Symposium

The stutter has run away from any government—

JJJJJerome Ellis, Afro-Cuban composer, performer, and writer

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

Friday, November 13

No registration required. More information and Zoom links can be found during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

Friday, November 13
10:30–11:45 a.m.
Race Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Student Research Presentations

7 p.m.

Keynote Event for Ray Warren Symposium

The stutter has run away from any government—

JJJJJerome Ellis, Afro-Cuban composer, performer, and writer

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

Friday, November 13

No registration required. More information and Zoom links can be found during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

Friday, November 13
10:30–11:45 a.m.
Race Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Student Research Presentations

Moderator: Valerie White, L&C ombuds
Channon Miller, assistant professor of history, University of San Diego (bio)
Alaí Reyes-Santos, associate professor of Indigenous, race, and ethnic studies, University of Oregon (bio)
Additional presenters to be confirmed.

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

7 p.m.

Keynote Event for Ray Warren Symposium

The stutter has run away from any government—

JJJJJerome Ellis, Afro-Cuban composer, performer, and writer

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

Friday, November 13

No registration required. More information and Zoom links can be found during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

Friday, November 13
10:30–11:45 a.m.
Race Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Student Research Presentations

Moderator: Valerie White, L&C ombuds
Channon Miller, assistant professor of history, University of San Diego (bio)
Alaí Reyes-Santos, associate professor of Indigenous, race, and ethnic studies, University of Oregon (bio)
Additional presenters to be confirmed.

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

7 p.m.

Keynote Event for Ray Warren Symposium

The stutter has run away from any government—

JJJJJerome Ellis, Afro-Cuban composer, performer, and writer

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

Friday, November 13

No registration required. More information and Zoom links can be found during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

Friday, November 13
10:30–11:45 a.m.
Race Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Student Research Presentations

7 p.m.

Keynote Event for Ray Warren Symposium

The stutter has run away from any government—

JJJJJerome Ellis, Afro-Cuban composer, performer, and writer

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

Friday, November 13

No registration required. More information and Zoom links can be found during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

Friday, November 13
10:30–11:45 a.m.
Race Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Student Research Presentations

Moderator: Valerie White, L&C ombuds
Channon Miller, assistant professor of history, University of San Diego (bio)
Alaí Reyes-Santos, associate professor of Indigenous, race, and ethnic studies, University of Oregon (bio)
Additional presenters to be confirmed.

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

7 p.m.

Keynote Event for Ray Warren Symposium

The stutter has run away from any government—

JJJJJerome Ellis, Afro-Cuban composer, performer, and writer

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

7 p.m.

Keynote Event for Ray Warren Symposium

The stutter has run away from any government—

JJJJJerome Ellis, Afro-Cuban composer, performer, and writer

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

7 p.m.

Keynote Event for Ray Warren Symposium

The stutter has run away from any government—

JJJJJerome Ellis, Afro-Cuban composer, performer, and writer

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

Please join faculty and staff to hear colleagues present short, informal talks on their research.

7 p.m.

Keynote Event for Ray Warren Symposium

The stutter has run away from any government—

JJJJJerome Ellis, Afro-Cuban composer, performer, and writer

No registration required. More information and zoom links will be posted during the week of November 11 here.

Sponsored by the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies.

17th Annual Ray Warren Symposium
November 11-13, 2020

Movement
Call for Visual Art submission deadline:
Monday, October, 19, 2020 by 6 pm

17th Annual Ray Warren Symposium
November 11-13, 2020

Movement
Call for Visual Art submission deadline:
Monday, October, 19, 2020 by 6 pm

17th Annual Ray Warren Symposium
November 11-13, 2020

Movement
Call for Visual Art submission deadline:
Monday, October, 19, 2020 by 6 pm

Jackie Wang, black studies scholar, poet, multimedia artist, and author of Carceral Capitalism

“Making ‘Model Citizens’: Junior Police, Youth, and Social Control in School” by Mai Thai, PhD Candidate, Sociology, Indiana University-Bloomington

The symposium will highlight student work that focuses on the intersection of media, sports, and public culture.

Underground Publishing Networks and Autonomous Politics in Latin America, 

by Magalí Rabasa, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies in the Department of World Languages & Literatures at Lewis & Clark College

The Historic Demands and Current Struggle of the Feminist Movement in Chile

Presentation and Discussion with Chilean artist & activist Yanira Obando and Portland-based filmmaker & activist Kelly Baur.

How do systems of oppression make people sick? Who has access to healthcare, and whose well-being is prioritized through public health policies? Though science and medicine are often considered neutral and objective, how have culturally created classifications of race shaped biomedical research and clinical practices? How, in turn, does medical science perpetuate racial ideologies? 

How do systems of oppression make people sick? Who has access to healthcare, and whose well-being is prioritized through public health policies? Though science and medicine are often considered neutral and objective, how have culturally created classifications of race shaped biomedical research and clinical practices? How, in turn, does medical science perpetuate racial ideologies? 

How do systems of oppression make people sick? Who has access to healthcare, and whose well-being is prioritized through public health policies? Though science and medicine are often considered neutral and objective, how have culturally created classifications of race shaped biomedical research and clinical practices? How, in turn, does medical science perpetuate racial ideologies? 

Monday February 19th

6pm-7pm,  Howard 102
Keynote Presentation - Dr. Omar Reda, OHSU
Dr. Reda a Libyan-American doctor specializing in forensic psychiatrist and teaches at Oregon Health Sciences University. Reda fled his homeland in 1999 upon receiving threat of arrest by Ghaddafi’s forces for delivering food and supplies to families of those imprisoned by the regime. Over the past decade, Reda has frequently returned to Libya to help those affected by conflict and has worked to create programs to help children recover emotionally from experiences of trauma.  

7:15-8:30pm, Smith Hall
Symposium Dinner Banquet
Members of the Lewis & Clark Community are invited to attend a dinner banquet for all symposium presenters, organizers, and guests. This gathering is an opportunity to interact with presenters and recognize the efforts of the steering committee. This event is catered by Ya-Hala Lebanese Cuisine. 

4pm-5pm, Albany 218
“Collective Amnesia: The Multi-Cultural Contributions of Al-Andalus to Western Civilization”
Dr. Julia Bazi, Lewis & Clark Professor of Music 
Presentation abstract:  For almost 800 years, Al Andalus fostered an enlightened culture in which three great Abrahamic traditions — Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — co-existed, interacted, and flourished. During the time of Al Andalus (711-1492), individuals of different ethnicities and faiths created an advanced and thriving culture which has had a lasting effect on world culture. So much of what we know and employ today dates back to this period. Modern-day science, technology, math, astronomy, medicine, music, agriculture, architecture, art and even clothing and dining etiquette can all find their roots centuries earlier in Islamic Spain. And yet, this is not a history with which many of us are familiar.The capacity of a memory to endure depends on the social power of the group that holds it and records that history. Collective memory implies by extension, the concept of collective forgetting. This phenomena has its own history. This presentation explores how older Iberian memories continue to influence our present and how the period of Al Andalus, often entirely ignored in our Western History books has had, and continues to have far reaching consequences in the present.

Morocco Student Research Panel
Moderator: Dr. Oren Kosansky, Lewis & Clark Professor of Sociology & Anthropology and Director of the Middle East & North African Studies (MENA) Minor. 
• Bradley Davis CAS ’18, “Philosophy and the Islamic Republic”
• Emily Hayes-Rich CAS ’19, “The Moroccan Khettara: State Influences Over Rural, Desert
  Morocco from the 7th Century to the Present.” 

12:30pm-1:30pm, Albany 218
Identity & Belonging : Student Research Panel
• Naomi Goldman-Nagel CAS ’19, “Monologues From a Girl with a Multifaceted Identity.”
• Lindsey Clark CAS ’18, “The Arab Spring ‘Success’ Case: Challenges to Tunisia’s      
  Democratic Transition.”
• Noam Margalit CAS ’18, “A Society Built on Death’: Examining the Presence and
  Absence of Dying in Israel.”  

“Explaining Women’s Electability: Role Congruity and the Importance of Candidate Type”
Dr. Lindsay Benstead, Portland State University Professor of Political Science and Interim Director of the Middle East Studies Center (MESC)

Presentation abstract: Ensuring female representation has been at the forefront of the global development agenda. Yet, little is known about which traits or social, economic, or political roles make women more electable. When and why do voters cast ballots for women, and how can insights into this help scholars, policymakers, and development specialists have a clearer understanding of the prospects of increasing women’s roles? Gender role congruity theory argues that bias against females for leadership roles stems from a mismatch between stereotyped gender roles and the traits associated with a “good leader.” We extend this theory by arguing that the credentials that candidates emphasize, such as their success as business entrepreneurs or civil society activists, has a significant influence on the extent to which voters prefer male over female voters because candidates are also judged as effective occupants of these roles when considered as future political leaders. Drawing on data from four original survey experiments conducted in Tunisia, Egypt, and Jordan between 2012 and 2014, we show that electability varies according to the skills candidates bring to the job. In the survey experiment, respondents were presented at random with brief descriptions of candidates who were either male or female and engaged in civil society work or business. We find strong and consistent evidence across the four countries that voters prefer business candidates to civil society candidates. Moreover, males in particular prefer male candidates to female candidates. But, the gender gap in electability is larger for business candidates – roles for which women are often stereotyped as unfit – than civil society candidates. When male and female candidates are running on civil society platforms, the gender bias at the polls is narrowed. We argue that this is because many view women as caring and community-oriented, and thus as having the traits that many equate with successful civil society activists.

6pm, Stamm
Musical Performance by the Al Andalus Ensemble 
Al-Andalus Ensemble an award winning musical ensemble that performs both traditional Andalusian music and contemporary work.  It is internationally known for its innovative fusion of Middle Eastern, North African, European and American traditions, which it represents through world, jazz, flamenco and classical music. The group’s spectrum of work includes original Nuevo-Andalusian and jazz pieces to stirring renditions of American spirituals to thrilling, improvised percussion solos played on traditional clay drums, and much more.

Monday February 19th

6pm-7pm,  Howard 102
Keynote Presentation - Dr. Omar Reda, OHSU
Dr. Reda a Libyan-American doctor specializing in forensic psychiatrist and teaches at Oregon Health Sciences University. Reda fled his homeland in 1999 upon receiving threat of arrest by Ghaddafi’s forces for delivering food and supplies to families of those imprisoned by the regime. Over the past decade, Reda has frequently returned to Libya to help those affected by conflict and has worked to create programs to help children recover emotionally from experiences of trauma.  

7:15-8:30pm, Smith Hall
Symposium Dinner Banquet
Members of the Lewis & Clark Community are invited to attend a dinner banquet for all symposium presenters, organizers, and guests. This gathering is an opportunity to interact with presenters and recognize the efforts of the steering committee. This event is catered by Ya-Hala Lebanese Cuisine. 

4pm-5pm, Albany 218
“Collective Amnesia: The Multi-Cultural Contributions of Al-Andalus to Western Civilization”
Dr. Julia Bazi, Lewis & Clark Professor of Music 
Presentation abstract:  For almost 800 years, Al Andalus fostered an enlightened culture in which three great Abrahamic traditions — Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — co-existed, interacted, and flourished. During the time of Al Andalus (711-1492), individuals of different ethnicities and faiths created an advanced and thriving culture which has had a lasting effect on world culture. So much of what we know and employ today dates back to this period. Modern-day science, technology, math, astronomy, medicine, music, agriculture, architecture, art and even clothing and dining etiquette can all find their roots centuries earlier in Islamic Spain. And yet, this is not a history with which many of us are familiar.The capacity of a memory to endure depends on the social power of the group that holds it and records that history. Collective memory implies by extension, the concept of collective forgetting. This phenomena has its own history. This presentation explores how older Iberian memories continue to influence our present and how the period of Al Andalus, often entirely ignored in our Western History books has had, and continues to have far reaching consequences in the present.

Morocco Student Research Panel
Moderator: Dr. Oren Kosansky, Lewis & Clark Professor of Sociology & Anthropology and Director of the Middle East & North African Studies (MENA) Minor. 
• Bradley Davis CAS ’18, “Philosophy and the Islamic Republic”
• Emily Hayes-Rich CAS ’19, “The Moroccan Khettara: State Influences Over Rural, Desert
  Morocco from the 7th Century to the Present.” 

12:30pm-1:30pm, Albany 218
Identity & Belonging : Student Research Panel
• Naomi Goldman-Nagel CAS ’19, “Monologues From a Girl with a Multifaceted Identity.”
• Lindsey Clark CAS ’18, “The Arab Spring ‘Success’ Case: Challenges to Tunisia’s      
  Democratic Transition.”
• Noam Margalit CAS ’18, “A Society Built on Death’: Examining the Presence and
  Absence of Dying in Israel.”  

“Explaining Women’s Electability: Role Congruity and the Importance of Candidate Type”
Dr. Lindsay Benstead, Portland State University Professor of Political Science and Interim Director of the Middle East Studies Center (MESC)

Presentation abstract: Ensuring female representation has been at the forefront of the global development agenda. Yet, little is known about which traits or social, economic, or political roles make women more electable. When and why do voters cast ballots for women, and how can insights into this help scholars, policymakers, and development specialists have a clearer understanding of the prospects of increasing women’s roles? Gender role congruity theory argues that bias against females for leadership roles stems from a mismatch between stereotyped gender roles and the traits associated with a “good leader.” We extend this theory by arguing that the credentials that candidates emphasize, such as their success as business entrepreneurs or civil society activists, has a significant influence on the extent to which voters prefer male over female voters because candidates are also judged as effective occupants of these roles when considered as future political leaders. Drawing on data from four original survey experiments conducted in Tunisia, Egypt, and Jordan between 2012 and 2014, we show that electability varies according to the skills candidates bring to the job. In the survey experiment, respondents were presented at random with brief descriptions of candidates who were either male or female and engaged in civil society work or business. We find strong and consistent evidence across the four countries that voters prefer business candidates to civil society candidates. Moreover, males in particular prefer male candidates to female candidates. But, the gender gap in electability is larger for business candidates – roles for which women are often stereotyped as unfit – than civil society candidates. When male and female candidates are running on civil society platforms, the gender bias at the polls is narrowed. We argue that this is because many view women as caring and community-oriented, and thus as having the traits that many equate with successful civil society activists.

6pm, Stamm
Musical Performance by the Al Andalus Ensemble 
Al-Andalus Ensemble an award winning musical ensemble that performs both traditional Andalusian music and contemporary work.  It is internationally known for its innovative fusion of Middle Eastern, North African, European and American traditions, which it represents through world, jazz, flamenco and classical music. The group’s spectrum of work includes original Nuevo-Andalusian and jazz pieces to stirring renditions of American spirituals to thrilling, improvised percussion solos played on traditional clay drums, and much more.

Dr. Daymond Glenn MEd ’03, EdD ’09, is back at Lewis & Clark as the new assistant director of the Teaching Excellence Program. As a visiting assistant professor, Glenn is also teaching courses this term on critical hip-hop studies and contemporary African-American issues in urban America.

Dr. Jess Bielman is the Director of Campus Ministries and Assistant Professor of Christian Ministries at Warner Pacific College, a Christian liberal arts college in Portland, OR. Bielman received his D.Min. from Wesley Seminary in Washington D.C. focusing on Spirituality and Storytelling. He also co-pastors a house church.

The Chamberlin Social Justice Forum is sponsored by the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life.

Monday February 19th

6pm-7pm,  Howard 102
Keynote Presentation - Dr. Omar Reda, OHSU
Dr. Reda a Libyan-American doctor specializing in forensic psychiatrist and teaches at Oregon Health Sciences University. Reda fled his homeland in 1999 upon receiving threat of arrest by Ghaddafi’s forces for delivering food and supplies to families of those imprisoned by the regime. Over the past decade, Reda has frequently returned to Libya to help those affected by conflict and has worked to create programs to help children recover emotionally from experiences of trauma.  

7:15-8:30pm, Smith Hall
Symposium Dinner Banquet
Members of the Lewis & Clark Community are invited to attend a dinner banquet for all symposium presenters, organizers, and guests. This gathering is an opportunity to interact with presenters and recognize the efforts of the steering committee. This event is catered by Ya-Hala Lebanese Cuisine. 

4pm-5pm, Albany 218
“Collective Amnesia: The Multi-Cultural Contributions of Al-Andalus to Western Civilization”
Dr. Julia Bazi, Lewis & Clark Professor of Music 
Presentation abstract:  For almost 800 years, Al Andalus fostered an enlightened culture in which three great Abrahamic traditions — Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — co-existed, interacted, and flourished. During the time of Al Andalus (711-1492), individuals of different ethnicities and faiths created an advanced and thriving culture which has had a lasting effect on world culture. So much of what we know and employ today dates back to this period. Modern-day science, technology, math, astronomy, medicine, music, agriculture, architecture, art and even clothing and dining etiquette can all find their roots centuries earlier in Islamic Spain. And yet, this is not a history with which many of us are familiar.The capacity of a memory to endure depends on the social power of the group that holds it and records that history. Collective memory implies by extension, the concept of collective forgetting. This phenomena has its own history. This presentation explores how older Iberian memories continue to influence our present and how the period of Al Andalus, often entirely ignored in our Western History books has had, and continues to have far reaching consequences in the present.

Morocco Student Research Panel
Moderator: Dr. Oren Kosansky, Lewis & Clark Professor of Sociology & Anthropology and Director of the Middle East & North African Studies (MENA) Minor. 
• Bradley Davis CAS ’18, “Philosophy and the Islamic Republic”
• Emily Hayes-Rich CAS ’19, “The Moroccan Khettara: State Influences Over Rural, Desert
  Morocco from the 7th Century to the Present.” 

12:30pm-1:30pm, Albany 218
Identity & Belonging : Student Research Panel
• Naomi Goldman-Nagel CAS ’19, “Monologues From a Girl with a Multifaceted Identity.”
• Lindsey Clark CAS ’18, “The Arab Spring ‘Success’ Case: Challenges to Tunisia’s      
  Democratic Transition.”
• Noam Margalit CAS ’18, “A Society Built on Death’: Examining the Presence and
  Absence of Dying in Israel.”  

“Explaining Women’s Electability: Role Congruity and the Importance of Candidate Type”
Dr. Lindsay Benstead, Portland State University Professor of Political Science and Interim Director of the Middle East Studies Center (MESC)

Presentation abstract: Ensuring female representation has been at the forefront of the global development agenda. Yet, little is known about which traits or social, economic, or political roles make women more electable. When and why do voters cast ballots for women, and how can insights into this help scholars, policymakers, and development specialists have a clearer understanding of the prospects of increasing women’s roles? Gender role congruity theory argues that bias against females for leadership roles stems from a mismatch between stereotyped gender roles and the traits associated with a “good leader.” We extend this theory by arguing that the credentials that candidates emphasize, such as their success as business entrepreneurs or civil society activists, has a significant influence on the extent to which voters prefer male over female voters because candidates are also judged as effective occupants of these roles when considered as future political leaders. Drawing on data from four original survey experiments conducted in Tunisia, Egypt, and Jordan between 2012 and 2014, we show that electability varies according to the skills candidates bring to the job. In the survey experiment, respondents were presented at random with brief descriptions of candidates who were either male or female and engaged in civil society work or business. We find strong and consistent evidence across the four countries that voters prefer business candidates to civil society candidates. Moreover, males in particular prefer male candidates to female candidates. But, the gender gap in electability is larger for business candidates – roles for which women are often stereotyped as unfit – than civil society candidates. When male and female candidates are running on civil society platforms, the gender bias at the polls is narrowed. We argue that this is because many view women as caring and community-oriented, and thus as having the traits that many equate with successful civil society activists.

6pm, Stamm
Musical Performance by the Al Andalus Ensemble 
Al-Andalus Ensemble an award winning musical ensemble that performs both traditional Andalusian music and contemporary work.  It is internationally known for its innovative fusion of Middle Eastern, North African, European and American traditions, which it represents through world, jazz, flamenco and classical music. The group’s spectrum of work includes original Nuevo-Andalusian and jazz pieces to stirring renditions of American spirituals to thrilling, improvised percussion solos played on traditional clay drums, and much more.

MLK Week 2018 Chamberlin Performance! One actor, ten characters, and fifty years of social justice. Join us for “The Movement”, a whirlwind tour of African American history with Emmy-Award winning actor Ron Jones. With videos, pop culture references, and a healthy dose of humor, Jones takes his audience on a journey of love and struggle. Sponsored by the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life’s Chamberlin Social Justice Fund and the MLK Jr. Week 2018 Committee in the Council Chamber.

Ray Warren Symposium Keynote speakers: Cultural practitioner Sulu’ape Keone Nunes and multimedia artist Wendy Red Star 

Jeff Chang, cultural critic and author 

This forum will provide a space for discussing how we can accomplish the goal of prioritizing diversity in General Education.

 • What do we mean by diversity?

• How can we guarantee that all students graduating from L&C grapple with issues of      cultural difference and social power?

• Should exploring diversity be one of the goals of a core class like E & D?

The Pamplin Society of Fellows is proud to announce the finalists for the
2016 Teacher of the Year Award: Sepideh Bajracharya, Kimberly Brodkin, Casey Jones, Joel Martinez, Tamily Weissman-Unni

Exploration & Discovery is excited to be sponsoring the screening of the film #chicagoGirl and Ala’a Basatneh (the subject of the film) coming to campus to talk about her recent visit to the liberated territory in Syria.  We hope you can join us!

• Showing the 74 minute film #chicagoGirl: The Social Network Takes On a Dictator
• Presentation by Ala’a Basatneh
• Q&A with Ala’a

Aasif Mandvi is well known for his work as a correspondent on Comedy Central’s Emmy-winning show, THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART.   Most recently, Aasif wrote, produced, and starred in the HBO series, THE BRINK, co-starring Jack Black and Tim Robbins. Brought to you by the President’s Office, Inclusion & Multicultural Engagement, and the Dean of Students Office.

Please join Jesse Hagopian, educator and activist, for his talk at Lewis & Clark College on February 5, 2016, at 5 pm in the Gregg Pavilion.
“More Than A Score: The New Uprising Against Standardized Testing”

Race Monologues

Each year a different group of L&C students writes an original series of personal narratives to share their feelings, experiences, and understandings of race, ethnicity, and identity.

Safiya Umoja Noble, Ph.D, Assistant Professor in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies will present “Google Searching for Black Girls: Old Media Stereotypes in New Media Practices” Friday, September 18 at 3 p.m. in the Gregg Pavilion.

Indigenous in the City: The Politics of Urban Mapuche Identity in Chile presented by Assistant Professor of Sociology SARAH WARREN.

Screening of the documentary “Black Girl in Suburbia” following by panel.

Panel Guests:

• Melissa Lowery, filmmaker
• Traci Prinkki, documentary participant
• Bridgette Hickey, LC student

This event is free and open to the Lewis & Clark Community

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Please join us for this special free screening of the Oscar-winning film, Dead Man Walking, in preparation of Sister Helen Prejean’s visit to Lewis & Clark College on February 4, 2015.

LC Community members with an advanced understanding of racial justice will participate in a Social Justice Teach-in, facilitated by local academics and activists (and activist academics).  The goal of the Teach-in is to increase individual knowledge and capacity to work for racial justice.

Please join us for this free screening and discussion of the documentary, “Anne Braden: Southern Patriot” as part of MLK Week.

When many of us see individuals struggling or widespread social problems, we are compelled to intervene. What happens, however, when we don’t utilize a critical lens to examine the potential unintended consequences of our well-intentioned actions? This interactive workshop will interrogate the differences between charity and change. Together, we will develop best change practices for social justice advocates and activists.

Keynote Event

Keynote Event

Securing Beauty by Mimi Thi Nguyen,
Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Keynote Event

Blackness and Beauty: Style, Hair Politics, and Colorism

Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, is a 93 year old retired US Air Force officer, and one of the famous “Tuskegee Airmen”, also known as the 332nd Fighter Group. During World War II, Black Americans throughout the U.S. were subject to Jim Crow laws which legalized segregation and the American military was also segregated. President Truman signed an executive order ending segregation in the military in 1948 (3 years after the war’s end). Lt. Col. Jefferson’s book, “Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW”, is a personal memoir of those who served America in World War II and after. 

Please join us for this very special opportunity. Lt Col Alexander Jefferson will speak from 7-8pm in the Chapel at Lewis & Clark College.  A book-signing and reception will follow. The event is free and open to the public.

In 2011, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in an essay published in the TheNew York Times Magazine.

Documented chronicles his journey to America from the Philippines as a child; his journey through America as an immigration reform activist; and his journey inward as he reconnects with his mother, whom he has not seen in person in over 20 years. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion and reception.

Hispanic? Latino? Chicano?  What’s the difference among these terms?  Which one(s) do you use and why? Which one(s) have been used to describe you? 

Join community activist Sean Aaron Cruz for an engaging discussion and history of each of these terms. Snacks and drinks will be provided.  Free and open to everyone.  

This event is part of the IME’s Heritage Month programming.

The second of three lectures this fall, presented by James Loewen, bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me and Sundown Towns.